The Keys to Creating Habits that Last

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Management, Intentionality, Selfdevelopment, Education, Teamleadership, Personaldevelopment, Productivity, Self-improvement, Business, Achievement, Influence, Selfleadership, Leadership

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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The ability to establish habits is a powerful skill—but too many people give up only a few weeks in. It’s bound to happen when you fail to harness one of your most important assets in habit creation: your why. Staying connected with the reason you started can be the difference between giving up and pressing on. In this episode, Megan and Michael discuss the practices that keep your why top-of-mind. When you master these practices, you’ll move from dropping out of the race to finishing with flying colors. End the habit frustration and start experiencing the impact of incremental change. In this episode, you’ll discover— Why forgetting your why undermines your success Stories of how habit motivations change over time Permission to stop striving for habit perfection Why celebration is vital for progress How to leverage tools in the Full Focus Planner to create habits that last This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by our new Full Focus Journal and Black Executive Pocket planner. Get them today at leadto.win/journal. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by our new full focus journal and everybody asked for it,
0:06.0	the new black executive pocket planner.
0:09.0	Make sure to get them today at lead to dot win slash journal.
0:13.4	Hi I'm Michael Hyatt and I'm Megan Hyatt Miller and this is lead to
0:20.1	win our weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life. And today
0:25.2	we're going to be talking about the key to creating habits that last, particularly
0:29.7	we're going to be talking about the importance of your why when it comes to developing new habits.
0:35.6	I'm so excited to talk about this today because I think people really want to have
0:46.4	habits in their life and most of us have tried to install habits but I think a lot of us have stories of failing to permanently install
0:55.6	habits and you know kind of going in fits and starts and this is a time of year we're really starting
1:01.0	to think again about how do we set ourselves up for a great new year.
1:05.8	The next year that's coming, I think all of us are eagerly anticipating 2021.
1:09.8	Habits are a big part of that and today we're really going to get into kind of the how to of creating habits that really last no matter what.
1:18.0	And I think one of the first things we have to say is that when you're taking on a new habit, you've got to get really clear on the motivation.
1:25.0	Because habits are hard, because we're talking about changing our behavior.
1:30.0	And all of us have had, as you said, that experience where we tried to change, you know, we tried to either, you know,
1:35.9	quit a bad habit or take on a good habit.
1:39.6	And if you're like most of us, you know, we start with a lot of enthusiasm, we can keep it up for a few weeks, and by the way, this is why New Year's resolutions don't typically work.
1:49.7	But if we're not really clear on why that's important, we inevitably get to the messy
1:55.0	middle when it becomes difficult when we run out of steam and we want to quit.
1:59.7	And if we're not clear on the motive, we will quit. And that's what makes change and habit building so difficult.
2:06.1	Absolutely. Well, today we're going to talk about how anybody can stay connected with their why
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